Carole King - Pleasant Valley Sunday (from Welcome To My Living Room) 

I love that she incorporated some of the Monkees version into her performance. They did a hell of a job with this song and deserve some recognition for what they did with it.

Carole King is the ULTIMATE song writer! I've been a fan since I was born! Tapestry is one of the BEST albums ever written/recorded PERIOD!!

I’d love to see her and Micky sing this awesome song together!

Although I prefer the Monkee’s version, this one by Carol King is also a gem!

I’m a 69yo disabled veteran and I’ve always loved this woman. I was home on leave and she was playing in Central Park and I went to see and listen and it was amazing. She is amazing and all Americans love her.

People don’t realize how many great songs she wrote in the almost 60 year career I would’ve loved to of been up in the brill building with her in the early 60s watch them all work

I like that she had the guitarist here play the beginning riff done the way the Monkees version was done. Her original version did not have the riff and I think it makes this song a little better to have it.

I came to this via a Wedding Present cover, respect to a fantastic song writer.

Didn't know she wrote this song until a couple of days ago... love both versions, and respect her even more as one of our greatest singer /song writers

Another one of the King/Goffin Monkees songs that I really love is "Sometime in the Morning."

I LOVE this song - despite the fact I live on a cul-de-sac backing up to Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange.

All about Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, New Jersey where she was living at the time.

Absolutely phenomenal. All these decades loving this song, & now is when I listen to its composer - the beautiful & legendary Carole King do her version. Breathtaking !!

Thanks for blessing the world with this song, Carole! As a Monkees fanatic back in the day, it meant a lot to this little 7 year old!

I am 55 and my son is 21 and Carole king is one the few artists we both agree on.

The mega~talented Carole King!!!!!

I love her energy in this performance. Goffin-King wrote so many terrific songs. Carole is a treasure.

Still my favourite Monkees song from 1967

This is fantastic, a power pop classic, I loved it when I was 10 and I still love it 50 years later!

this is a song for ever

Great song Carole and of the late Gerry Goffin depicting the so called serene American dream and society during the 60's. Nice blend of Carole's keyboard and vocal with some of Michael Nesmith's guitar riffs borrowing a bit from the Beatles' guitar riff of Paperback Writer.

This song is my childhood to the letter! I never knew Carole King wrote it until recently, but that makes sense since I love her music, and the Monkee's were my first favorite "band"!

Fantasic performer. Suberb songwriter. Please don't forget her long-time songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin, who penned the lyrics to these fantastic songs.

Great song Carol!.... Such a talented girl... But Micky does a damn good job.

This song is so clever and well-written. I love the inventive chord changes. The social commentary is excellent.

It's NOT too late, baby...😁👍 This song is one of my all time favorite! Love you, Carole!❤️since 70's. God bless you!🙌

Carole King is a genuine legend

I LOVE Carole King!

I love the song but I loved my Pleasant Valley Sundays even more! Charcoal, lawns, roses, woods, Degnan Park and all. Best childhood ever!

My all time favorite Monkees tune!

It's wonderful to see Carole King enjoying the audience reaction. I know she's very shy.

A National Treasure!

I just love her arrangement and chord progression on this classic. She is amazine.

Never knew she wrote this ! lol This was a awesome tune love the lyrics as well

I am especially enjoying this because it is a Sunday, and it is Carole's birthday.

I do like the songs she wrote , sung by herself best , more raw & not over produced. One of the greatest of all time 🙃🙂

What amazes me about Carole's songs is that they all sound completely different. No wonder she made the big bucks as a songwriter for other acts.

Man, this is great. She is brilliant.

Carole is just wonderful!

Such a well crafted song. The audience makes me wonder if they ever listened to the lyrics.

Wow! She could write a great song

Oh, Carole, I know this is a bit of a lament, but I just can't help but feel so very happy every time I hear this wonderful song. Thank you!

Pure joy - she’s a breathe of fresh air & a national treasure! 💙🌸

What a great songwriter. She and Prince were genius songwriters.

wonderful. what a treasure she is.

This is a real treasure.

Thank you for the video. She has always been amazing to me.

She was brought up in Brooklyn and moving to the "burbs" seemed so compromising. She loved city life.

One of the best songs from the 60s and great memories of my very first girlfiend at school💕

GODDESS!!!

Very TALENTED!!!👌👌👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Loved this by the Monkees... Even better with the Songwriter Herself!!!!!!! Brava!!!!!!!!

The angst of suburbia put so beautifully. That's the power of pop music and Carole King is a master of the pop song.

Great song and performance. This song also one of the best covers by The Monkeys. Thanks.

thank you carole for trashing status symbol land with this gem (of many gems) you wrote. my life became more meaningful from the first time i got the priceless definition of this song. you are the greatest.

Carole King, genius woman!

That intro - before the beat AND after the beat. Very effective.

Carole King wrote this great song for The Monkees! Amazing woman.

Kudos to Carole for writing it, but she's performing the Monkee's version. Chip Douglas, the Monkee's producer (and Turtles bass player) came up with the catchy guitar riff, and the rest is history.

And she interpolates the "ba bap ba ba" chorus from the Monkees' version. Nice touch.

Thank you, Carole, for such a wonderful song. 😊

I love this song ,remenbering my child experience .

We become grateful to these artists when we go thru a dark period in our lives for they make our lives worth living after listening to them. Thank you, Carole, Elvis, B J, Campbell, sinatra, Gaye, Cook... Life doesn't seem that bad after all.

I live Nerima Ward,Tokyo,Japan.Every Sunday morning I visit my church.It is pleasant Tokyo Sunday.

Very nice!!!

One interesting thing about this song and the circumstances around which it was written are these. Goffin and King had just had their first child together while still college students, and living in cramped quarters in Queens was too much for them to bear with a newborn. So they moved to West Orange, NJ, which at the time was suburbia and considered Siberia. In reality, it's a stone's throw from the Holland Tunnel and Manhattan. King loved the space and freedom of movement; Goffin hated the boredom, quiet, and isolation and took every chance he could find to travel back to the city. Goffin always wrote the lyrics to their songs, and King the music. That explains the cynicism toward suburbia in the song. West Orange was the beginning of the end of their marriage. After three years, King and her two daughters (a second was born before or after the move to W. Orange, not precisely sure) moved to Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles and started work on Tapestry.

One of my early experiences of song as social commentary that I actually got. Helped a lot to be "in situ" (a suburban setting, though far from NJ); there were plenty of points of reference around. (It took a lot longer to get what the blues were about.) It's a brilliant song.

Wonderful !!!! 😍😍😍👏👏👏👏

Nothing better.

a thing of beauty

what a great stage! And of course what a legendary musician.

Thanks Carole and Gerry for writing such a beautiful song. Thank You for letting The Monkees release it. Funny this Australian always thought Pleasant Valley was somewhere in California. Oh well both California and New York are a long way away from Melbourne. Love from The Land Down Under.

It's Carole King...'nuff said

Adorable watching Rudy doing the "ah-ah-ahhhh-ah" part of the bridge off mic.

Master class songwriting 101 👍

I love this.

Fyi, pleasant valley way is a street in west orange new jersey where she used to live. Apparently her husband hated it.

NAILED IT 👌🏻💯

Pure beauty and talent!!

Gotta love the Brill babies!

I love it!!!! Bravo! 👏👏👏👏

So much talent.

Garry Burr....a local hero from my home town Meriden,Ct.

VERY WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!

I am Mr. Green, I'm So Serene, I've got a TV in every room. For real.😎

Awesome! I'd have loved to have been at this show. Carole is such a talent. And she's so freaking cute! 😎👍

She is a beauty

Enjoyed that, great song

I like it.

God, this woman is gorgeous ❤

my favorite version

You might ask: Why is she singing this song? Well, she and Gerry wrote it.

Such a great tune!!

One of the best song writer ..her and Neil cooped up in a little room pushing out the top tunes of the early sixties..

Brilliant songstress

2019 and this song still resonates

"The local rock group down the street trying hard to learn their songs" is a reference to the Myddle Class. Carol was married to their bass player,Charlie Larkey,for a while.

According to Carole King’s autobiography, the lyrics were actually written by her then husband, Gary Coffin, with Carol composing the music. They had moved from their apartment in New York City to a house in a New Jersey subdivision. Gary Coffin’s disillusionment with life in “status symbol land” is evident in the lyrics.

WoW. She actually uses her vocals here and God forgive me she does this song justice. I always liked Mickey dolenz version but he's is the way it was meant to sound. Sry Mickey. God Love Ya.

Wonderful!